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daily saudi led report. >> there have been many voices criticizing what has been happening to the civilian population. over the last weeks many of people estimating those casualties to be in the hundreds. althoughhe coalition has said that it believes that it has killed more than 1,000 houthis rebels. in total many of those not part of the battle not party pants there. i am going to bring in european council for foreign relations, who has studying the situation in yemen long before all of this began a few weeks ago after the takeover of the capitol. and then their advance and attempt to take over the
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southern port city of adan. the question is, if decisive storm is over, as they say and restoration has begun what's been achieved. >> i think what we have seen so far since the saudi campaign has begun is we have seen the general destruction of the bulk of the military, and the houthis ballistic capabilities. >> i think we have to point out the bulk of the military had gone over to the side of the houthis. >> yes. >> they have taken their weapons and personnel. >> exactly so you have seen most of this taken out and also the air force taken out in addition, the houthis -- excuse me, the strikes also manage to effectively start halting the houthis advance. prior to this, they were completely bearing down with full force rapidly, poised to take over much of the south sense then, we have seen them, effectively stopped in the provinces.
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that being said, they remain ensconessed by all standards in the capitol. >> even by the standards of war labeling, restoration of hope is this sugary as it can get, isn't it? it wasn't basically means we think we have destroyed as much as we need to, before we go in there not necessarily with ground troops and make sure that we can clear the houthis out? >> yes. >> the hope from one group point of view not necessarily the other. >> the question remains what the restoration will mean. there has been a lot of talk over the past few days of some sort of ground force internally taking on the houthis there's also been talk of humanitarian cease fire, the saudis themselves have offered said they are going to take care of the entire $270 million in aid requested by the u.n. and emergency
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appeal so restoration of hope can mean a lot of things. >> i want to bring in lawrence former assistance defense secretary in the united states i think lawrence, you are with us from our studios in washington, d.c. hey listen you have heard how we have as the day of restoration of hope has begun we are talking about the battle for control of yemen. do you think here as our guest here has said this is evidence that the military capability has been pretty much destroyed? i think it is a combination they have destroys a lot of the capability, but they are getting a lot of bad press because of the civilian casualties that have occurred with the bombing and also, with the presence of the american ships now particularly the aircraft carrier, i think they feel the houthis will not be able to be resupplies any more. >> i am sorry i was looking to
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see if the confirmation had come from sawedly television, if there were any more details we don't know very much. you believe it could be been the big aircraft carrier that has finally made them think enough is enough? yeah i do think because if the -- you know the saudis are putting their national guard on the border, and if you stop them by sea it will be pretty hard for the houthis to get more and more supplies and this bombing campaign has decimate add lot of their military capabilities so far and i i do think the fact that you have these civilian casualties is important because that's turning opinion in yemen and around the world against the soughtdies and their other partners in this bombing campaign. >> lawrence, stay with us, as i said to adam, we are just getting word of what is happening we are trying to
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pull it all together and goings right now to our correspondent inside saudi arabia about 100-kilometers away you heard the announcement on saudi tv, what was said? owe, the announcement basically said that the leaders of the coalition saudi led coalition has received a letter from the king and basically the king himself received a letter from president hattie on the 20th of this month which is yesterday, says he thanked all the countries that have participated in this military campaign and basically asked them to now start a new phase in this war and the statement by the coalition has
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ennumerate add number of points including these deplete control over the air space of yemen. complete control over anything. cooing to yemen from outside the country that's one goal, and the other goal is to destroy all the heavy weapons and the ammunition that is in the houthis' possession, and that's one of the other goals and also the announcement says that this campaign has achieved the main goal, which is to reduce the houthis capabilities of harming yemen and of controlling the country, and of the coupe they have staged against the legitimacy so it is like the announcement shows as every single objective of the campaign has been achieved, and now we should move to a new -- starting from today this is the end of the so called storm, so now there's a
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new one exhaust the restoration of hopes. now we should begin a new phase in which we give -- restore hope to yemen and we begin the political operation once again. >> okay, mohamed, with me from the european council foreign relations look, let's lay this out, on the one hand we have achieved everything we want to be we want to achieve we have complete control of the air space we have destroyed all the heavy weapon which is is narrative that you would expect from people who are claiming to have score add victory. >> on the down side, when you have been looking at this, do you think it is well conducted? do you think the casualties have been minimizes do you think the houthis have been destroys or just putting a gloss on the fact that after four weeks this is as far as they have got. >> it is crucial to remember
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when you talk about the capitol, and northwest yemen and going downrd twos even -- ibb, in these areas the houthis have been weaken add little in terms of their consent, but their control is still yes. >> i am looking at and screen that shows the brigadier general the spokesman for the saudi led coalition we have been waiting for him decisive storm resoaring hope began let's hear what he has to say. >> the start would like to remind that the of ration of resolve when it started it started on the bases of the president of yemen's request it was a request for a number of states to response to the
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request of the yemen people and the government. to support the legitimacy and protect is sovereignty of yemen, and to protect the yemen citizens from the practices oif houthis militias and their allies. and the militias of the president, the operation the political operation started and also led to military operations the goals when we started were was to protect the legitimacy, and to deter the militias to attacking the p power strugglelation and destroy the military capabilities. the third goal is to prevent
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the houthis militias from threatening the neighbors countries primarily the borders of the king of saudi arabia. the operations began and they were cleared specifies goals that we mentions that there were also goals with the air campaign that were specified on day one very clearly and in the last few days we said that the operations encompass add number of access, and we have -- we are achieving air supremacy, and to prevent them from using any preventing the houthis from using any aircraft or air means also to subdue the air defense practice that the houthis militias controls.
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to deviolence nature their command centers. and we told you in the first days that there was complete air supremacy which we achieved in the first 50 minutes oif operation. the of ration continues against the missiles. and we also the presence of the houthis military in adan we -- we disrupted their movement supply and logistics we destroyed ammo stores. and often kind of repair and maintenance. and also we stopped their air -- their ground attacks also we are protects adan from invasion by the houthis militias. and taking it over. the operations where are
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conducted with precision and the operations were successful there were no casualties regarding air operations except one plane that suffered technical malfunction. all operations were conducted on time, and they hit their targets. and the regards the houthiss and the last two days we have had over 1300 houthis today we have 22,004 mean. the goal of which is to execute the air campaign in a focused manner and to identify targets and thankfully, it has achieved this goal quite precisely on the drowned.
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therefore, today the coalition, has declared that they have completed these resolve operations based upon the request of the yemen government and the president of yemen. who saw that the primary goals of the resolve has been achieved. and that the goals on the frowned have been achieved and that the sovereignty has been protected the yemen citizen is no longer subject to doinger from the militias and that the houthis militias have lost a large part of it's capabilities. and we are able to confirm that no longer a threat to the yemen citizens or the neighboring countries. the government will undertake now all necessary operations and actions to basically
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recover -- to start rebuild the country and the operation will continue until midnight of today. and then the operation of returning hope to the yemen people will confirm that the yemen government will work to support it's presence on the ground and continue to rebuild yemen. in a safe and security manner. as as far as the forthcoming operations. we shall discuss what the coalition is doing in regarding to returning hope of ration. we shall prevent military operation of the houthis militias inside of yemen. we are as i mentioned earlier we are targeting their
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movement to prevent it from the attacking or arm haing the citizens we also continue to protect the civilians from the attacks should they attempt to start redoing their practices that they conducted before the beginning of the stormers of the operation and this is the beginning of continuing of supporting and facilitating the evacuation, and help with the continuing of the humanitarian and support command that we mentioned before, and will continue the duties today by coordinating the evacuation and the humanitarian aid to help the operations will continue
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regarding these three goals. the operations size could be smaller, there will be some military actions whatever the coalition command sees -- deems it necessary, in order to support achievement of these goals. >> today the operations that were conducts were targeted to support and facilitate the beginning of these operations whether it is in adan, or saleh. or taz all of these actions were basically focused on achieving those three goals that i have just mentioned to you. may will be run by the coalition command, and will
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continue to protect civilians in adan and target any attempts by the houthis militias i also mentions that the ground work will continue to protect the kingdom's southern borders and will be conducted by the saudi military and the saudi border guards to protect the southern borders of ksa and repel any attempts by the houthis to penetrate the borders. and regards to the naval embargo, that will continue bly the coalition command to prevent and that is to stop ships and search them, and make sure that they comply with the u.n. resolution. 2216 that prohibited arming the militias by any country or party to arm the deposed
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president and or any of his allies or associations. and we'll -- and these resolutions stipulate an countries groups or actions to the -- to arm the militias and this embargo shall continue by the coalition to intercept and search any ships i am now p open for questions and just want to say that the operation was quite successful. thanks be to god by his grace and by the coordination and work of all the member states with planning and execution and the courage of the fighters whether it's an air combat or naval combat or ground combat, or the border guards and today the saudi has
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declares that the saudi citizens are to be reassured and that all the threat source of the threat by the militia has been destroyed and the coalition command confirms that all these targets have been destroyed beginning with the ballistic missles. and today was targeting of the last weapon store which is was destroyed and should continue it is confirmed the coalition that they have more stores and this will continue through operation renew home, in yemen and we wish these operations success. and before i fin thish i would like to declare that the evacuation operation is doing it's duty, to achieve the third goal of the renew hope
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operation, and they can be reached by the numbers on the screen. and the ecoalition command will support the operations on monitor the situation. and repel any attempt of penetration by the houthis militias and everyone is seeking to achieve safety and security to the yemenis and to yemen. i wish everyone good luck. and now i am hope to questions thank you. some of the prez would like to be restated in english if you don't mind.
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i want to remind that the operation when it start it was as in response to the quest of the president of yemen. the president to help the government to protect the yemen operation. and to prevent the -- and to deter the militias to threaten and to use their military capability and the objective was to preslept them to threaten the neighbors country of yemen those objectives had designed from the beginning was designed from the beginning and we had a man a military plan to
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perform and to achieve these objectives. we start by have the air supremesy in yemen to create and to destroy the air camabilities to destroy the empty 80 capabilities to deviolence nature the missles. to provent the militias from using their supplies to assist in their operation. to prevent them to use the militia and storage, so we destroys it, to destroy it, we prevent them to rebuild their capabilities using their maintenance facilities we prevent them to move and to use the military transportation owith had a the yemen water and we prevent
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them to attack the southern border of saudi arabia. this objective was achieved by very good planning. very precise execution. by the courage of our sailors our soldiers. and we arrived today at 00 hour. to conclude the part of the decisive storm operation. and we will start a new operation, what we call it renewal for yemen. and these kinds of operations we have three object is first to deny the militias
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operation, and movement, to protect is civilian, and to continue to support the evacuation and the humanitarian operation. so to implement this we will continue to have our operation to prevent those militias to have any military movement or operation, in yemen -- in the yemen territory. and inside the city we continue to protect the civilian to prevent this militias to sustain the operation. and in the growing part the saudi ground force and the coast guard will continue to
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protect the southern border of saudi arabia, and to prevent the militias to conduct any attack against the borders. in the military time action we will continue to have the maritime protection, to prevent any supply for the militias and to implement the resolution 2216 to make sure that no one supply the militias and help them to sustain their operation so the -- the committee that was designs or -- designed to receive all the evacuation and humanitarian aid and relieve the of ration will continue the direction through the numbers and the concern i show you in this slide and the will continue to perform their
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operation in a matter of hope for yemen wishing that yemen will become again stable and secure country for the region and for the yemen population thank you. >> is this mean that the houthis have surrendered? and the coalition has won? and what are the corner stones of this victory? you still have complete air supremacy on yemen. as i mentioned at the beginning of today accused of offering support briefing the operation was based upon an official request by the yemen government.
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that was submitted by the committee to the arab states. today as we conclude, it was also done upon the request f othe eyemen government. once the gets have been achieved and now the yes men government is able to conduct renew hope operations using political process and military operations. which will be monitors. the yemen government is the legitimate government, and has the right to stop this support. no doubt that iran was present
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in this trouble. now, iran was not neutral but it was focused on the evidence threats which is most of which which brigadier leader of the ground forces said that if they don't stop their operations in the yemen there will be -- they will attack saudi arabia. at the time some of the locations that a ship was stopped that was layden with weapons was stopped by the u.s. nave i have. how do the coalition forces? deal with such provocations from the goth? as far as -- as far as yemen there is a resolution by the national security. that was voted in by 14 members that the situation in
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yemen, was worns by media propaganda and this resolution is now applied and the legis matsy was supported but as you mentioned about threats and such, they are able to protect itself, it is not here in prove vagues, or entanglement. here in saudi arabia we know how to protect our country. and we are able to do so and we do not give any credence to such propaganda, our goal is to help yemen become stabilized and security. and that the world has now realized that the situation in yemen can be a threat to world
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stability and past, and the resolution 2216 was voted in by a majority. congratulation the commanders of the coalition and to -- and the success of -- and for you brigadier, my question is that you have now declared -- you have declared that the national guard was participated in a eare solve. and now you have concluded the operations and the operation of. >> almost four weeks into operation decisive storm we see as of 1 1/2 hours from now the beginning of operation restoration of hope the bombing of numerous sites will
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end, the saudi led coalition says it will now deny militia control of all sorts of ground space, air space already denied to them it and he begin to help people we evacuations from difficult areas and to restore security and deal in counter terrorism. the instruction of towns cities the almost 1,000 lives claimed to have been lost by the coalition. all of them houthis fighters, not all of them, but they said they killed 1,000 houthis fighters the u.n. says 750 total have dies we know that some of those are members of the public not directly involved in the conflict, this was the scene outside a sudden militia, missile base, in the capitol around 24 hours ago, not many people said it was the biggest explosion
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there has been, 46 people killed in that and there are some we believe including one of them being my studio guest but this is picture the idea that there was such a massive explosion, caused by the saudi coalition in a residential area where more influential people lived and dies this may well have led the coalition to think enough for now is enough although they are saying that the military campaign has been a massive success. okay, we are going to analyze all of this and begin with my friend and colleague. who is live for us now in doha, i don't know how many times you have been to yemen over the ten years that you and i have worked together on this story but it is countless times. what state is the country in
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now? that this bombardment has ended. >> well david the statement of the saudi raises many questions about the future and what we are going to see in the coming days. initially they said that the best guess was to continue until the houthis pull out from the city the control. as we speak the houthiss are still presence and the port city of adan you name, numb per two, they were insists to undermine the military capabilities of the houthis and forces loyal. the fighting continues in different parts of the country. so the houthis are not defeated. now, general -- the spokesperson of the saudi dead
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coalition says the operation technically speaking is not over because in the near future if they are trying to acquire new weapons they will use force. how can you do that and under which wization, we are going to see more tough times ahead and the situation remains very ambiguous. has there been any diplomacy a deal between the houthis and the president hadi? how is this going to be implemented and what do hay say tomorrow when we are not going to negotiate a settlement well, the suggestion has been made that it may be impossible to actually continue, because he has become lost in all of this
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and his deputy may be the person to take it forward. >> we snow that the houthis made it quite clear they would like to work in the future and that the era is over and he should go, which looks like the zebment of many wee players that hadi should go, launch as national unity dialog but then you have many problems on the ground. in the south sid for example you have forces loyal to the government but at the same time you have the succession fist that would like to break away from the north how do you solve that? you go further north to places where sunni tribesman say they are determined to continue the fight until they are pushed back so their power base, how do you deal with that?
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are we going to expect to see move to adan for quite some time or to the capitol of yemen, these are questions that need to be answered. >> . >> thank you very much indeed. i am going to go to washington d.c., former u.s. secretary of defense lawrence call with us now. i want to ask you about one thing in particular, at this point the suggestion that this had to be -- because of the high civilian casualty rate and did he recalling what happened yesterday with that sudden missile base. not the final straw but they decided enough was enough. this is also the last four weeks of bombard mend, has been groups such as al quaida and the islamic -- and the arabian peninsula operating further to the east of where we have seen a lot of
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trouble, this is giving it a chance perhaps to play the devil make mischief to extend it's influence there, do you think the saudis and the other members would have been under pressure to say we need to stop this now? when they first started the air campaign, the air power alone has never achieve add particular victory and if they are not willing to send in large numbers they couldn't win, and i think given the dam they have done, they are certainly weakened given as you have pointed out the casualties peep around the middle east and the world were very very concerned and the question is if you bomb for four more weeks waywould you have accomplished. and i think there's some back channel diplomacy.
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you have the iranian foreign minister writing in the times about coming to a solution here the united states has an aircraft carrier there to prevent them from supplying by sea. and as my colleague just pointed out it's not over, you are going to have to come to a negotiated solution, as that involved all of the various factions and no one has really mentioned what about a.q.a.p., they take in control this week, so it's far from over. i suppose to be the best to be hoped for a situation which is very similar whereby under the institution there is a division of power and a sharing of responsibility among different groups within lebanon, do you think that's too much to hope for at the
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moment? this national dialog they had in which the houthiss and other groups will be represented could actually bear some kind of fruit? well you would hope so, given the fact that the international community had not been paying very much attention to yemen but now has their focus on it, i do think that that's the only realistic solution at least in the short term because it is clear no side is going to win on the battlefield. the saudis won't let the houthis win completely, but they are not doing enough to destroy them. so i do think that can be the best we can hope for, the hopefully it will at least stop the violence temporarily. >> thank you very much indeed. we will come back with adam in just a moment, but before that i want to hear from brigadier general there is
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what he had to say andn restoration hope was about to begin. >> today the coalition has completed the decisive storm campaign and the quest of the yemen government, and the president. the campaign has been achieved and sovereignty has been protected. the citizen is no longer subject to danger from houthis militias and they have lost a large part of their capability, we are able to confirm we are no long ear threat to neighboring countries the government will now undertake all operations and actions to recover and start rebuilding the country. the operation will continue until midnight. then the operation of returning home to yemen people will begin with the government that has to rebuild in a safe and secure matter. >> it certainly isn't safe or secure at the moment. yemen specialist still with me here. they hope those who led this
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bombing campaign, what they have done over the last 3 1/2 to four weeks will eventually make yemen a safer place. that is pause they regard the houthis as the real danger there. how will they secure the peace pass the ask has effectively been destroyed because most of it went to the i believe ares. >> exactly. >> most with a few exceptions there have been a few members of the military who have declared up that support but the bulk of the military did side with the houthis. >> very powerful general in the the country did declare support for legitimacy, but then we are seeing the bulk on the ground a lot will end up being in control of these forces on the ground in and
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around arden who are going to be the key anti-houthis forces. the question is whether they can beat them back, because they generally with some congestions have struggled. >> so when we have seen, let's paint a similar picture, when we have seen forces depicted by tribes people in another country, it happens to be iraq and we are talking about forces being perhaps drip back by sunni militia here in yemen. and it didn't work very well in terms of the way it was carries out and the country is aer thible mess, how can the militia avoided that. >> i think generally is key is as it's heart this is not a sectarian problem. it is possible to be resolved through political means. there are rumors of potential remediation, it is worth noting that yeah man did stay out of the coalition. >> even though the gcc members said we are behind you we will
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join you, etc. >> exactly. >> which is significant, and we even had sames that says when the conditions are ripe, we will intervene we will come in and provide the world mediation, i think there's a case to be made that could be now trucks packed with explosive, etc., suicide bombings this might be a path that we see now so how would people put a lid on that. >> i think you are seeing that from both sides. let's not forget that al quaida peninsula has taken a key role.
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taken over a milt tear bases and for that matter, the first larger city, but then in terms of the houthiss the question is whether they feel they are still facing an existential threat from saudi arabia. as far as the houthis are concernses this a bat toll detroit them when you look at the history they will continue fighting. >> the story is not over, thank you indeed. improvised explosive devices. no the bombing campaign on houthis rebels inside yemen will end in just over one and a quarter hours it will be replaced decisive storm will be replaced by operation restoration hope this was announced by the spokeman of the saudi led coalition they claim they have degraded the
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militia sufficiently to allow the forces on the ground to go in and to establish a new order there speculation from our studio guests around the world, that perhaps the president may see some more power to his deputy president a man acceptable to newsroom sides and the man appointed aspirin minister as well as deputy president who may well have some leverage with the houthis. it isn't over in terms of the conflict not settled but an element of it has finished. roast ration hope to start. a ship captain has been arrested in italy on manslaughter charges in which
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a vessel that was carrying more than 800 people sank. 400 migrants have been rescued and the late nest a series of rescues as refugees and other migrants try to crosser the mediterranean. the latest now he is on the southern italian island of sicily. >> still that he keep on coming no matter how dangerous the journey thed wooen boat leaking all they can do is appeal for help in the seas south. they were lucky an italian fishing boat found them in time. in sicily meanwhile, the authorities are hoping the few frightened men who survived the sinking of a overcrowded boat off the libyan coast in the early hours of sunday morning. the initial stories of the scale of that disaster have been horribly accurate. >> they have now interviewed most of the survivors of the
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boat tragedy in the mediterranean, according to them the boat departed from tripoli in libya on saturday morning it had some 850 people onboard, many of these were children among those onboard were some 350 people from syria, somalia, sierra leone mali senegal, ivory coast and ethiopia. >> italian prosecutors say this man mohamed alley malick was the captain of the boat. he has been taken into custody, charged with reckless homicide, and causing a ship wreck. and another suspected member of the crew has also been arrested on the right who is from libya accused of assisting illegal impression. >> and more details are emerging as to how many people died. >> migrants were crushed inside the fishing poet, it was at least 23 meters long, a few hundred migrants were
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forced into the hole, at the lowest level and they were locked and prevented from coming out. another several hundred were closed into the second level while on top under a cover there were another 100. >> here in sitly and across europe, there's a lot of system think for the victims and there's widespread outrage at the activities of the route lest gangs. but governments have disagrees for years on ways to prevent these disasters as sea and on ways to prevent more people from risking the perilous journey across the mediterranean. and the problem goes far beyond italian waters. h four africans rescued by coast guards. some too exhausted to walk ashore, some so young they may not remember how they arrived here, to start a new life in a new continent.
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barn biphillips al jazeera, in sicily. >> egypt's deposed president has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, he was the uncan's first domically elected president buzz was toppled in a military coupe. tuesday's verdict is the first that morrissey has been given. since he was ousted although he still face as numb per of other trials. for what the prosecution says was his role in the arrest and torture of protestors at the presidential palace in 2012. he can still appeal this conviction but he also faces several other charges including an attempt out of prison break in 2011 where some prison officers were
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killed a verdict on this is expected next month spraying he is accused of conspiring to commit terrorist acts. leaking state secrets and edangerring the national security. fraud in connection with the public brotherhood economic and social program early hours of sunday also charged with insulting the judiciary. muslim brotherhood leader were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long as road to democracy, he was kicked out of office during a revolution against his rule, then in a devicive election in 2012, he became the first democratically elected president but the celebrations didn't last long, he issued an order that prevented any court from overturning his decisions. that led to violence on the streets.
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morrissey sacked the head of the armed forces escalating a power struggle between the military and the president. >> i guess a decision has. taken by the military, before rushing this election, the first democratic election, that at a certain point the military would intervene -- will intervene and take over. >> only june 30th 2013, million of people rallies calling for his resignation three days later the man that appointed the defense minister led a coupe that removed him from power. although the defendants were acquitted of attempt to murder, any sentenced against the first democratically elected president is seen as a big blow to the muslim brotherhood and it's supporters. >> troops say they have reck
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taping the hospital, apertures ten days ago by isil, the u.n. says more than 90,000 people have fed the fighting other the last two weeks. south africa says it is sending troops to two of the piggest cities after attacks on migrants there. immigrants there, the government has gone as to provide buss for any of it's citizens who say they need to leave the country. at least seven people have been killed in violence directed at foreigners in the last two weeks. sought africa's government criticized for not doing enough to protect them. joyce worked as a hair dresser in south africa. she is from zimbabwe, the $200
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looked after her chirp. >> but she says some of the locals receipted her for accepting low pay which made her more attractive to employers. so when a tax on african highn't froms started she feared her family would be targeted. i was afraid to include -- that's why i moved my daughter here, they were attacking the foreigners in the schools. >> at the border post they say they are relieved to be safe, even if conditions here are rough but the reality of being back is sinking in. >> 20% but economists say between 80 and 9% returning families say they are not slur what they are coming back to, and many admit they are worried about starting over. >> some of those who left, blame policies of the
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president ruling parties. for damaging the economy. he lived at the height of the economic crisis with nothing he says he is returned with nothing. i don't know what i am going to do here. >> government officials are trying to help. >> in this case, i am talking about many. >> anything that can assist us. there's a lot of emotion in them and physical -- they are so traumatized. some say they want nothing to do with south africa. >> no, i don't want it. the way people are killed i don't think i will ever go back there.
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>> others say if things get too difficult here, they will have to cross the border into south africa again, as soon as it is safe to do subpoena p the so called bookkeeper was responsible for sorting the money taken from those who were killed. he is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people. >> he entered the courtroom a frail old man with a dark past. in his youth he worked as a clerk for the s.s. in the auschwitz death camp. on tuesday that past caught up with him. he was accused of beings the accessory to the mores of 300,000 people in the spring and summer of 1934, he told the court he acknowledged what
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he called his moral guilty, but said it was for the judge's to decision whether he should be convicted. it was the single most murderous camp the nazis ran in the course. or time solution of the jewish question. it's that 1,001,000 people, but also others were exterminated at the camp, during the 4 1/2er yeahs of it's existence. ol' car was at the camp between 1942 and 1944. his role was to deal with the collection of those that were murdered. he had particularly responsible for the foreign currencies that were found among the possessions. one of the jewish children who survived being experimented on by s.s. doctors at auschwitz was in court to hear oscar.
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eva parents and elder sisters died at auschwitz. eva spoke about what seeing him on trial meant for her. >> he has a lot of difficulty physically, and i am sure emotionally, and mentally. to remember -- so i think that in one respect maybe functioning at that level, he is doing his very best a very long day. >> in previous interviews ten years ago oscar chose to speak about his time at auschwitz as he put it then, to oppose things who denied the exterminations ever happened there. >> but now his trial has heard he accepts his own moral guilty. dominic cane, al jazeera berlin. >> and that is it for me in
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